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Quand le jeu devient sérieux : vers un développement des soft-skills
No full textDepuis toujours, les jeux existent. Ils évoluent au gré des mutations que connaissent les sociétés, mais aussi en fonction des progrès réalisés dans plusieurs domaines, notamment technique et technologique. Avec l’apparition des ordinateurs et de l’internet, les jeux vidéo voient le jour et marquent un véritable tournant dans l’histoire ludique. Ils progressent et se diversifient ensuite de manière spectaculaire. Leur production devient depuis quelques années, voire quelques décennies une industrie à part entière dont les revenus sont estimés à plusieurs milliards de dollars. De manière générale, l’industrie vidéoludique se destine à créer de l’amusement, mais il lui arrive aussi de mettre au point des jeux conçus à des fins pédagogiques et utiles. On parle alors de serious games ou jeux sérieux. C’est justement sur ces derniers que portera cet article. Après une brève rétrospective relative à la genèse des jeux vidéo de manière générale, et des serious games en particulier, on s’interrogera sur l’utilité de recourir à ces derniers en matière d’enseignement et de voir surtout quel serait leur apport lorsqu’il s’agit de soft-skills
1984 ou la dystopie totalitaire de Georges Orwell
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Récit de fiction qui dépeint une société imaginaire, diamétralement opposée à ce que serait une utopie, la dystopie plonge son lecteur dans un monde cauchemardesque et invivable ; un monde fait de non-liberté, d’assujettissement et de contrôle. Dans ce genre qui relève de la science-fiction ou du roman d’anticipation, la portée politico-idéologique est souvent de mise et sous-tend de part en part le projet même de l’écriture. Un des exemples qui illustrent justement ce genre de littérature est bien 1984, de son écrivain George Orwell. Cette fiction dystopique passe pour une critique incisive du totalitarisme en même temps qu’elle constitue une mise en garde contre les dérives dangereuses que pourrait prendre un tel régime. Dans le présent article, il sera question de faire ressurgir les différents aspects qui font de la ville de Londres – et par ricochet l’ensemble de l’Océania (le nouveau nom de la Grande-Bretagne dans le roman) – un espace dystopique.
Mots-clés : Dystopie -Totalitarisme -Panoptique - Hiérarchie -Dénaturer.
Abstract
A fictional story that depicts an imaginary society, diametrically opposed to what a utopia would be, the dystopia plunges its reader into a nightmarish and unlivable world; a world of unfreedom, subjugation and control. In this genre, which relates to science fiction or anticipation novels, the political-ideological scope is often essential and underpins the very project of the writing from one side to the other. One of the examples that precisely illustrate this kind of literature is 1984, by its writer George Orwell. This dystopian fiction is seen as an incisive critique of totalitarianism at the same time as it constitutes a warning against the dangerous excesses that such a regime could take. In this article, it will be a question of bringing to the surface the different aspects which make the city of London – and by extension the whole of Oceania (the new name of Great Britain in the novel) – a dystopian space.
Keywords : Dystopia - Totalitarianism -Panopticon - Hierarchy - Distort
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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